Residential Development Senior Associate

About The Role

The role

Thisis a multi-faceted position in which you will work alongside some of thebiggest names within house building as well as niche developers. Yourresponsibilities will be varied but will include:

• Complex and large-scale land acquisitions from household names across England and Wales
• Collaboration agreements between developers
• Disposals of services parcels
• Funding arrangements
• Strategic options
• Urban regeneration
  
  
  

The team

Our Residential Development Unitexclusively partner with housebuilders. We work with all of the top 10housebuilders in the UK and 18 of the top 20. With 200 specialists, we have the largestresidential development team in the UK offering a complete acquisition todisposal service. The team acts for national and regional housebuilders,promoters and institutional landowners on new residential developments of up to6,500 new homes.

Our Land Team act on large scaledevelopment matters such as development agreements, conditional contracts,options, corporate and contractual joint venture and collaboration agreements.We also assist our housebuilder clients with strategic land projects. You’ll beable to rely on the UK’s largest plot team so that your focus is solely on landacquisition work.

The team are supported to by specialist Litigation, Planningand Construction team to offer a full service to your clients. Our South East team are headed up by 7Partners including Andy Wilson, Lead Partner for the South and Callum Nuttall,Property Platform Head. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from theirexperience and develop your own career with this market leading team.

The person

We seek a Senior Associate with a minimum of 6 years of post-qualificationexperience. The successful candidate will have experience working withhousebuilders and have helped to mentor junior members of a team. Mostimportantly, you will share our passion in delivering the best service possibleto residential developers.

• Passion and Commitment: Wevalue individuals who are deeply passionate about land acquisition – acornerstone of Gateley’s strategic vision.
• Growth Potential:Our track record speaks for itself – we nurture and elevate our LandAcquisition experts to Partnership positions
• Investment in the Future:We actively seek candidates whom we can invest in for long-term success
  
  
  

At Gateley, you can expect world class development support. We invest heavily intraining and support for our Solicitors at all levels on every property relatedtopic as well as career development skills such as management training. As aPlc we are also able to offer opportunities that our LLP competitors simplycan’t. Solicitors can build up equity within the business throughout theircareers via our sharesave scheme. We also award £50,000 of shares to those beingpromoted to Partner within Gateley.

Are you someone who will take advantage ofthese many opportunities and develop yourself into one of our future leaders?If so, we’d love to hear from you!

About Us



The benefits

Withsupport, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues aroundour great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitmentand loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll berewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive anannual bonus.

Inaddition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities viaour Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensiverewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit ofpurchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employeeassistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loanand many more benefits (grade dependent).

Finally, with Perks At Work/Home youcan select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a CommunityOnline Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hiphop dance.

We are Gateley

Weare forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions tothe problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professionalservices group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law andbusiness. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the rightanswers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. Wesupport more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies toprivate individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not justabout the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.

The'Gateley Story' is the story of our people and our culture. It is what has gotus to where we are today as a successful business and it's the driving forcebehind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have aset of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is andthis includes five elements that bind us all together as one Gateley: Ambitiousfor Success, Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and WorkingTogether. Every year across the group, we recognise members of our team thathave gone and above and beyond and have lived these shared values. They arerecognised at our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.

Diversity, inclusionand well being

Diversity,inclusion and well being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values.We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures,providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex,race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.

Wecreate an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone'spotential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offerflexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balanceand we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role t­o applyfor any of our vacancies.

Weare proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for ourDiversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

AdditionalInformation

Ifyou are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a varietyof pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks caninclude but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional andacademic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability andreferences from previous employers. The screening that takes place will berelevant to your role and will vary from role to role.